MACON, Ga. — A Warner Robins woman was convicted by a federal jury of stealing over $200,000 from a Warner Robins spinal care center, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Georgia.
They say Emiliya Radford, 33, was found guilty Thursday of one count of bank fraud, one count of wire fraud and one count of theft from a federal program.
Radford first started working for a Warner Robins clinic, Smith Spinal Care Center, in a one-year marketing contract back in September 2019.
They hired her business, Cyber Pinecone, but then in May 2020, Radford moved into a new position with the clinic: office manager. They say her new salary with the spinal care center was supposed to include her marketing work, but the U.S. Attorney's Office says she continued to cut checks to her business without approval from her clinic.
As part of her role as office manager, they say Radford was in charge of signing payroll checks and could write checks on behalf of the business.
With that power, they say she wrote $200,000 in checks to her business and she also gave herself an unapproved pay raise. Some funds, they say, also came from a federal COVID loan, which is where her stealing from a federal program charges came from.
With the funds from the business, prosecutors say she purchased more than $10,000 worth of products from the Apple store that were sent to her home. They were eventually able to find some of the products purchased when federal agents searched Radford's home, the press release said.
The case was investigated by the FBI.
They say Radford faces 30 years in prison and a $1 million fine on her bank fraud charges. She also faces up to 20 years in prison and 250,000 fine on her write fraud charges. She also faces up to 10 years in prison and $250,000 fine on her federal program theft charges.
Her sentencing date has not been scheduled yet, the press release said.